The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.